POLICE today shot dead two men and captured a third during a dramatic gun battle at the Indian High Commission in London. The men, described as 'Asian type', were killed in a shoot-out on the ground floor of the building. It seems that three armed men walked into the building and threatened staff. Some were tied up and other pushed an generally 'knocked about'. A clerk is believed to have been stabbed. Shortly after the alarm a 'strong force' of police, backed by Scotland Yard's crack Special Patrol Group armed with revolvers, stormed the building, smashing windows with truncheons, and faced the raiders. Police were threatened with revolvers, and in an exchange of shots two men were killed.

'TALKING Rubbish' in last night Nalgo lecture in the Central Library Theatre, Mr C.E. Scowcroft, Bolton's Cleansing Superintendent, said that Bolton had about 300 men employed in that department. Although Bolton's means of refuse disposal is outdated, Mr Scowcroft said that modern plant was envisaged, and described the most up-to-date methods with the aid of an epidiascope. By these modern means 600 tons were disposed of in Leeds. Most of the refuse was salvaged, and plastics, oilcloth, maps and even banknotes were made from salvaged paper or rags.

ON Wednesday, before the Bangor Magistrates, Morris Pritchard, an agricultural labourer, was charged with wounding John Williams, a young man, also a labourer. There is a courting custom in country districts in Wales called 'striking' - throwing pebbles or tapping at windows at night. About eleven o'clock on the night of the 13th instant, Williams went to the prisoner's cottage to court his daughter, having been there often before that, unknown to the prisoner. Williams tapped at a low bedroom window. While he was doing so, the prisoner rushed out, and, without saying a word, stabbed the prosecutor with a strong, cheap knife, in the left breast, under the armpit. The prisoner, still keeping silent, immediately went into the house and shut the door. The injured lover walked away, and had his wound, which bled profusely, dressed. The prisoner was committed for trial at the Carnarvonshire assises.

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